. but not if they ground an expanding business grounding. >> it's going to bemoretaxesforthe state. i think that's pretty critical. >> reporter: this airport runs some 80,000 oerpgs -- operations a year with about a dozen controllers. huge for the pilots who are based here. there's a flight school and a restaurant, where the owner says better to have fewer controllers than none at all. >> they will have to scale it up with the skeleton group. we're not imposing a danger to the pilots that are flying in and out of the this field. >> reporter: faa towers like this one are safe from closing until at least next year. but more than 100 others under federal contract are slated to shut in june. meanwhile, airline and pilot organizations are suing to halt the furloughs already under way. reporting live in santa rosa, debra villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> five people parked outside a san jose nightclub early today may all manage to avoid being wounded when someone fired multiple rounds right into their car. this all happened around 2:00 outside the fiesta nightclub. police say an argument inside may